Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-03-03
HERE AND THERE.

'lhe newest craze IN New FORK city IL lot
white furniture.
In Gait Cal, all high-school girls play ball
with the young men.
Ripe st awberries were picked In the gardens
Oi Santa Rosa, CAL last week.
In the provinces of Ontario there are fifteen
Young Womep's Christian Temperance ssso-
Citations.
A York state Judge is wrestling with the
question whether Matching eggs is manufac'
turing chickens.
There are l,250 firms engaged In the shoe
trade In Boston; In New York, $50, and In
Philadelphia, liz.
The largest and most successful steam laun.
DR., in Chico, Cal, Is owned and run by com
pan! of boys and girls.
plaintiff sued for SIS and the defendant
G It verdict of s25 at Nackawick. New Bruins
wick. one dag last week.
! taifornians are sending petitions to Post
master General Villas that packages of seeds
lie considered as third-class matter.
BrooSlyn's republican general committee re-
V scd the by laws Thursday and reduced the
number of words therein from 5000 to 800.
A ca5egrom from New Zealand says "Auck-
land has gone wild over a show during which
woman is fired from cannon and is caught in
mldair"
A young man who recently advertised In a
New York paper for a position said that "mik-
ing COWS and taking care Of furnace" were his
chief qualifications.
The Chinamen of Newark, N. j., are rapidly
forsaliing the customs of their people by cut
ling oil their cues, wearing English apparel,
and attending the Christian churches.
At Lynn Mass. a few days ago, young lady
was poisoned by the arsenic washed ON to her
face from two stuffed birds on her bonnet
while she was riding during a rain storm. She
Is still unable to leave her bed.
Niagara falls are now holding their usual
winter transformation drama. Huge icicles,
ice. coated trees. and the scenes on the banks
caused by frozen spray are attracting many
visitors, who appreciate the wonders.
Dercon Benjamin Farnum, of Concord n.
H., who is over 50 years OF age, recently yoked
his ten handsome oxen and drew from his
farm through Main street one Of the largest
o.s that has been seen in that city for years
There are no fewer than four societies in
Canada whose members are pledged to sup
port no candidates for sheriff until he assures
them that he will not permit n priest or
preacher TO accompany condemned man TO
the Scaifold.
\ man in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,
/ fired IRON his wagon into a flock OF birds
while driving home one afternoon recently,
and ever since his horse has been deaf from
the effects of the shock given him by the re-
port Of the gun.
From $4,000 to 5000 cubic miles of rain
falls every year upon the surface Of this globe.
The rivers carry off barely half; the rest
disappears by evaporation, by the absorption
Of the earth, and by being taken up by plants
animals and mineral oxidation.
Three persons died from the effects of the
col weather ut Waterbury. Conn, during the
past ten days. The cold was so intense that
large numbers of birds and small animals died
and in many places in the vicinity crows came
! In aud drove the doves from their cotes in the
barns.
Among the old persons who have died lately
| in this country was John Walters OF South
Butler, n. Y He was born in l7S3 in Virginia.
lie was sick but twice until last year. He ate
| fish twice day aud wore earrings, aud II was
TO these facts that he attributed his remark
able age.
Mrs Spallen, teacher 10 the George B. Nc
Clellan school at Philadelphia, Pa, whose dis
rnlssal by the board Of directors caused re-
volt among the pupils of that institution
Tuesday, was reinstated Wednesday, and the
students, after an extra days rest, are again
back In their seats.
The island OF Juan Fernandez is to be rem
1ered of more practical value than II was In
the DAYS Of Robinson Crusoe. An enterpris
ing individual In Valparaiso advertises that he
will run steamer so as TO enable all to pass a
vacation there who wish TO escape the chances
Of cholera in Valparaiso.
There are three or four stenographers and
typewriters In New York city who make q
great deal of money by renting places in the
reading rooms of various hotels where they
do work for tie guests. A merchant from
afar can dictate his letters just as well as he
could at home and for a small fee.
A bill TO dsincorporate Socorro was recent
ly passed by the New Mexico legislature, and
has since been vetoed by Gov Ross who
characterized II as san insult to civilization
aud bac ward step to barbarism." The
bill is said to have originated In the hatred Of
|
Tom Green county, Texas. is named after
famous pioneer from North Carolina, who did
his share of fighting against Santa Anna aud
was honored when Texas secured her indie
pcndence Tom Green county has an area Of
800 square miles, and is larger than the
states OF Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, and
Delaware combined.
A doctor who died ut Brunswick, Me-, one
day recently, had charges on his books for
medical services amounting to nearly 5000
against the French operatives in the cotton
factory. Expressing fear that they might be
disturbed II payment was enforced, he ordered
his account books committed to the flames
and 1t was done in his presence.
German photographers have succeeded in
photographing projectile in the course OF Its
fight, and some Of the photographs show the
Lead Of condensed air which precedes every
shot. 1t is this "head" which prevents even
skillful rinemen from hitting an empty egg
shell when hung on long thread. The air
blows the shell out OF the way OF the bullet.
The army recruiting Office at New York is
never without applications. Many Of the ap-
plicants are shlftless and broken-down men,
who have failed at everything but these are
not wanted. Most Of the recruits are for
egners, and In point Of numbers the Germans
exceed any other nation, but none are accept
ed who can not speak English. Sometimes q
young man enlists to escape habits Of dlssipa-
ton.
Two weeks ago Gerrod Prescott aged IL
years of Biddeford, Me-, got into scufiio
with another lad, and the latter threw Gerrod
down, and seizng his head between his hands